NDP’s pan-Canadian Food Strategy

In mid-September, one of our volunteers emailed a pair of questions to candidates in all 42 BC electoral districts. These are the two questions that were asked of each candidate include:

If elected, will you give Health Canada the resources and the mandate to conduct a comprehensive, independent, science-based assessment on the safety of genetically engineered foods?

What will you do to increase public awareness in your district of genetically engineered food and toxic pesticides, including neonicotinoids?

Unfortunately, the questions were emailed only to Conservative, Liberal and Green candidates because all three of these parties included on their national campaign website easily retrievable email addresses for each of their candidates. For some unfathomable reason, the NDP didn’t.

Fortunately, someone pointed us to a policy document entitled Everybody Eats, which is the NDP’s proposed pan-Canadian Food Strategy. Today’s blog will highlight components of this NDP strategy that relate to the two questions we asked the other candidates.

One response to “NDP’s pan-Canadian Food Strategy”

This is a great Canadian Food Strategy document. We have been pointing it out to people we spoke with about the election. We have an assurance from local NDP candidates in the Mid-Island Region that when elected they will bring the farm community together to begin the implementation of this Food Strategy. What better reason for voting NDP. Let’s develop a NDP driven agricultural economy for the Mid-Island.